Well, they can't all be winners. Missing Link does have its peaks: there's a fascinating moment of complexity and defiance for Jeremie and Aelita, a mysteriously magnanimous Sissi, and drama in the house of Ishiyama. But the premise is ridiculous, the stakes are medium rare, and the entire plot hinges on whether or not a (presumably) white girl can be made to look like a Japanese girl for a class photo. Note that episode of Code Lyoko carries a content warning for racist and transmisogynistic th...
Dec 22, 2017•1 hr 22 min
Good news, everyone - once again Principal Delmas has deigned to let these kids have fun! This episode is a triumph in a lot of ways - it gives Aelita a great connection to the human world, it gives William a chance to not be attached to Yumi's hip all the time, and it serves up That Good Drama as Jeremie fails to comprehend that Aelita can have interests and a social life not connected to him. The Lyoko action does kinda create a dip in the back half, but we do forgive things like that. Tune in...
Dec 16, 2017•1 hr 9 min
Hello, my friends! As we said in the last episode description, Patreon has recently announced its plans to increase its donor fees by 2.9 percent +35 cents per pledge. We don't want our donors to pay this ridiculous extra cost, and I (Mary, typing this) am pretty peeved that it will especially burden lower-income creators and donors and driving them away from a service they once depended on for their livelihoods. In light of this news, and until Patreon responds to the MASSIVE negative feedback ...
Dec 10, 2017•27 min
It's been a long couple of weeks, but the band is finally back together! (Us, we mean. Mary, Ben, and David, not the Foxtrot Fanatics. We apologize for the immense disappointment you are currently experiencing.) In this episode, it's Valentine's Day (the day all lovers celebrate), and because we love you all so much, we're celebrating with ninety minutes of relentless Odd/Aelita shipping AND a haphazard attempt to shoehorn Code Lyoko into the Marvel universe! And also, for the first time ever, w...
Dec 09, 2017•1 hr 36 min
Thank you so much for your patience during our break! We are BACK and ready to get this Season 2 train a movin'! (And you know the season 2 train MAKES NO STOPS.) Unfortunately, it is David who could not be with us this week, as he was very ill and had lost his voice. But he's with us in spirit (and episode ratings) and Mary and Ben are here to bring you the biggest plot bombshells of 2005. No seriously - this blew our minds then and it blew our minds and it's great and we hope you all love it a...
Dec 02, 2017•1 hr 4 min
Sorry this one's up so late, folks! We recorded it a bit late in the week, and as you will see, it was a bit more edit-intensive than the usual garden-variety Code Lyoko Retrospective! This week, we've hopped back into the Recreation Pod to gush about Code Lyoko ephemera! Unfortunately Ben was not able to join us, BUT Mary and David are gonna give you the scoop (a super scoop) on the real, actual Subdigitals CD, which in French is one of the series' lost gems and in English is... it's an album o...
Nov 18, 2017•1 hr 16 min
Season two keeps the party going by addressing many an internet snarkster's biggest question about the show: why can't these giant-headed freaks instantly resolve every plot point by abusing their magical time machine? Another question answered: how would Odd and Ulrich sound spouting family-friendly mid-2000s misogyny? Anyway, this is the show's Groundhog Day episode, and to celebrate, we'll be recycling all our old jokes. Hah! Just kidding! We do that in every episode. Not recycled: spider eva...
Nov 11, 2017•1 hr 39 min
It's The Trap all over again as Mary, Ben, and David find themselves blown away by an episode all three of them remembered as ho-hum. Marvel at the spontaneous appearance of Yumi's little brother, Hiroki (that's right - there is another Boi that Here Come)! Chuckle knowingly at the first instance of Jim's beloved* catchphrase! And delight as our conversation inevitably turns to Jospeh Pujol (if you don't know who that is, don't look him up; it'll spoil the surprise) and ever more mid-2000s memes...
Nov 03, 2017•1 hr 33 min
HEY YOU GUYS! We're missing Ben this week, as he had some circumstances beyond his control come up. So it's just Mary and David in this one, here to keep you on the up and up and make out a WHOLE bunch! This week, with their sexy new money, the Code Lyoko crew has gone and built us a brand-new sector. I hope you like blue rectangles! We also get schooled on the Tunic - pardon me, PUNIC Wars, finally hear Franz Hopper's name spoken aloud, forget things about the episode we REALLY should have reme...
Oct 28, 2017•1 hr 19 min
AT LAST, SEASON 2 IS UPON US! We're so excited to bring this to you AND so excited to talk about all the new stuff that this episode introduces. New intros and outros! Vehicles on Lyoko! Aelita (Stones) as a full-time student! New monsters! Scary wolf visions! A bearded man with opaque glasses playing childrens' tunes on a hallucination-piano! Sweet flips on Lyoko! And of course DAT BOI, William Dunbar! Although you could view this entire episode as the Abstract Concept of Dat Boi, given how muc...
Oct 20, 2017•1 hr 23 min
Have you ever found yourself thinking, 'Gee, Return to the Past sure is a swell podcast, but there's entirely too much of that pesky Code Lyoko?' You're in luck! For our season one afterparty, we're talking about everything but! Well, that's not entirely true. We are going over our episode rankings and pass a final verdict on season one. Did your favorite Lyoko adventure make the top five? Tune in to find out! Also featured: extended musings on a couple of our other fandoms. Expect a deluge of n...
Oct 13, 2017•1 hr 10 min
For our season one finale, we've pulled out all the stops: Dangan Ronpa references, raging debates about Hufflepuff House, and the feasibility of making Jim and Principal Delmas lookalikes kiss each other in Dream Daddy. Which brings us to this thing called Code Lyoko! Have you heard of it? It's pretty neato. We actually talk about it a little, too. Aelita's here, Kankrelats are running amok in 2D meatspace, and Mary and David just can't seem to stop making out! We're rounding out the season in ...
Sep 28, 2017•1 hr 23 min
There's a new showrunner in town, and Madame S is NOT fooling around when it comes to spinning continuity out of, well, you've seen what this show's been like so far! It's the dawn of a new era left and right - you can't trip on the sidewalk in this one without falling on a status quo change! Join Mary, David, and Ben as they flip out and get super excited about Aelita because there's SO much good to come now that she's out in two dimensions! (We also make fun of the way Yumi's dad eats noodles ...
Sep 23, 2017•1 hr 23 min
The jury's still out on whether this is the best episode of the series, but boy is it a rich vein what we tap here. It's a killer premise, a killer execution, and an amazing (and unfortunately unique) look into the mind and motivations of a villain who almost never gives up those secrets. It's bold. It's brash. It certainly does NOT belong in the trash! AND NOT ONLY THAT, but we have done it. We have made up for our past transgressions and crammed MANY, SO MANY Spongebob, Homestuck, and even Hom...
Sep 16, 2017•1 hr 36 min
We're calling on all our listeners to provide as much assistance as they can to disaster-affected areas! Click here to find CharityNavigator's recommendations for relief donations. https://www.charitynavigator.org/ ===== Here it is, guys: our first ever crossover episode! The hosts of Going Digital, a Digimon recap podcast, join us for double the digital cartoon nonsense. Would Ty and his pals make good Lyoko Warriors? Could Ulrich beat up a Charmandler (that's a Digimon, right)? These, and many...
Sep 04, 2017•1 hr 38 min
Yoo hoo, it's us! Here it is, folks. The Big One. The Smooch That Never Was. The moment you've all been waiting for and continue to wait for as you silently curse Aelita for cutting it off. Join Mary, David, and Ben as they navigate the wild and wacky waters of time travel fatigue and the sweet sauce of heavy handed teen drama, distilled here into its purest, reddest form. And also talk about the usual nonsense like monkey chauffeurs and edit wars with the X-Files fandom. Questions? Comments? Em...
Sep 02, 2017•1 hr 34 min
Nobody knows where the Crotch Thrust Kid came from. Some say we never will. But when there's a soccer game that needs cheering, or a purple shirt that needs wearing, he'll be there, ready to move. We, too, are ready to go, as we've finally reached the point in the show when the episodes are reliably good (at least until Cartoon Network starts calling the shots, but we'll get there when we get there). In addition to pelvic thrusts, this RTTP episode features amputated toes, Sass Queen Aelita, and...
Aug 25, 2017•1 hr 23 min
Welcome back to the Rec Room! Every ten episodes, we take a break from recapping the show to talk turkey about the fandom/culture around it (as you would know if you'd been paying attention. This'll be on the quiz). In this episode, we review two Code Lyoko YouTube gems: the infamous (though possibly to nobody but us) Movie Quote Dub and the review by renowned cringelord Pan Pizza. We're also addressing one of our listeners' questions: if we could reboot the show, what would we do differently? A...
Aug 11, 2017•1 hr 20 min
We're sorry to disappoint you guys, but in this episode we do not, in fact, make a SpongeBob reference. (We make Fairly Oddparents and Teenage Robot references instead.) Oh, and speaking of robots, that's what this week's Lyoko is about! And for your humble hosts, it's probably the most divisive episode so far... Click here to see the screencap we mentioned. Click here to see the best Sissi Lyoko form of all time. Questions? Comments? Email us at rttppodcast@gmail.com or follow us on Twitter at ...
Aug 04, 2017•1 hr 30 min
Ooh la la! Things get hot and heavy in this week's episode, as Jeremie and Aelita have the steamiest encounter the TV-Y7-FV rating allows! (It involves floating in the abstract vacuum of the digital void and touching fingers and stuff.) Join us yet again as we serenade your ear holes with 100% in-series color commentary on enemas. We also fawn over aquatic sloths (they were real; look them up), and completely lose our heads over Ulrich and Sissi's 'down payment.' Questions? Comments? Email us at...
Jul 28, 2017•1 hr 38 min
Yo yo yo, fellow coolkidz! Welcome to another hella baller episode of R to the T to the T to the P, dawg! Check it: Xana tries to get down wif da teens by sending them his new hit single, but, awww, snap! This jive is WACK! These kids best check themselves before they get wrecked, themselves! (Pssst, did we do it? Did we relate to the teens? Do we need more k's and z's?) Questions? Comments? Email us at rttppodcast@gmail.com or follow us on Twitter at @rttppodcast. You can also support us at our...
Jul 21, 2017•1 hr 21 min
NOTE: There will be no new episode this Friday, as we are all taking a bit of a break. Tune in the Friday after for Killer Music! If your longtime crush had suddenly lost his memory and you were responsible for his care, what would YOU think is the right thing to do? If your answer is "take this awesome opportunity to make him mine", then congratulations, you've followed Sissi's line of logic. Join Mary, David and Ben as we try to make sense of this show's again tenuous grip on realistic science...
Jul 08, 2017•1 hr 25 min
The Super Nuclear team is proud to introduce their very first, very special guest: yet another person you've never heard of! Join Mary, Ben, David, and for the first time ever, Shawn (a long-time friend of the show and relative Code Lyoko novice) as they discuss pink French toilet paper, wonder whether XANA vapes, and make Simpsons references that were old when Code Lyoko was new. Our spirits are high and (judging by our featured episode's animation) the budget is low, so go ahead and give us a ...
Jul 01, 2017•1 hr 3 min
In this episode, Mrs. Hertz gets high and gives her students dangerous misinformation, so you know you're in for a good time! (That, itself, is dangerous misinformation.) The teen drama descends into cringe-inducing camp, and Ben descends into teen drama as the Odd/Aelita issue rides again. Questions? Comments? Email us at rttppodcast@gmail.com or follow us on Twitter at @rttppodcast. You can also support us at our donation page: https://ko-fi.com/rttppodcast ! Cover art by the very skilled Ingr...
Jun 23, 2017•1 hr 20 min
Today's episode is The Trap, and though your humble hosts had quite frankly forgotten it even existed, it's left us feeling quite emotional! Join us as David waxes nostalgic about his first crush (she's a triceratops), Ben shamelessly plugs Echoes of Echoes: Finding William Dunbar some more, and Mary makes Admiral Ackbar jokes so you don't have to. Also, we reveal the latest clue in the mystery of Kevin, and ask YOU to send us your fanart! Questions? Comments? Email us at rttppodcast@gmail.com o...
Jun 17, 2017•1 hr 13 min
In this episode, Xana launches his most vague attack yet, many of the show's most famous plot devices make their second-ever appearance, and... Well, the title says it all. Also featured: your hosts making ridiculous trumpet noises, a hilarious voice acting snafu, and a delightful anecdote about the time David out-FN@F'd a bunch of fifth graders. Questions? Comments? Email us at rttppodcast@gmail.com or follow us on Twitter at @rttppodcast. You can also support us at our donation page: https://k...
Jun 10, 2017•1 hr 14 min
In this episode, the Lyoko Warriors learn what Ben (and superstar actor Nicolas Cage) have known all along: bees are bad news. We'd torch the whole lot of 'em, if they weren't a crucial part of the ecosystem on which we all depend. Crafty beasts. Also featured: weird tangents about clowns and Sonic the Hedgehog. But we assume you all know what you're getting into by now. Apologies for the sound quality in this episode! Both Ben and Mary need to be more disciplined about turning their external mi...
Jun 03, 2017•1 hr 47 min
As we all know, the Parisian sewers are full of rats. But watch out! When XANA takes the wheel, these rats would much sooner eat our animated friends alive than yank on their hair and turn them into world-class chefs. Do various scenes of Yumi being a badass (and at least one awkward yuri tease) make up for this episode's oodles of scripting problems? Tune in to find out! Click here to check out, and support, Thomas Romain's newest project! https://www.patreon.com/thomasromain/posts Questions? C...
May 26, 2017•1 hr 15 min
Welcome to the Rec Room, where the points are made up, the rules don't matter, and everybody gets drunk and kisses each other. This week, we're taking a break from our regularly scheduled program to discuss the (Kadic) bombshells dropped by Channel Frederator's recent "107 Facts About Code Lyoko" video. That was a season four reference, kids. Please stick with us. We'll be getting back on track next week with a thrilling discussion of episode 11: Plagued. Click here to watch 107 Facts About Code...
May 19, 2017•36 min
There's a new student at Kadic, and one of the Warriors is head-over-heels for her! Amazingly, she's NOT an American exchange student. That's right, it's time to get to know Taelia, aka the face that launched a thousand theories! Join us yet again as we discuss one of the most notorious episodes of season one! Also featured: Jim/Kiwi fanfics, the possibility that at least one of the Warriors is a millionaire, and the kind of secondhand cringe that would make Pan Pizza blush. Nerdboys, make yours...
May 12, 2017•1 hr 17 min
